International Congress of Mathematicians 2022: Administration of Travel Grants for US Participants

国际数学家大会（International Congress of Mathematicians，简称ICM）是国际数学家的盛会。ICM由国际数学联盟组织，该组织拥有包括美国在内的87个成员国，是数学家展示和学习新的数学发展，未来研究方向，应用，教学思想以及传播和存档数学知识的方法的全球论坛。自1897年在瑞士苏黎世成立以来，ICMs已在许多不同的国家举行-最近在巴西里约热内卢（2018年），韩国首尔（2014年）和印度海得拉巴（2010年）-其中一些具有历史意义，远远超出了数学界。2022年，ICM将于7月6日至14日在俄罗斯圣彼得堡彼得堡举行，预计将有来自世界各地的5,000人参加。为了支持来自美国的个人参加大会，美国数学学会将利用这笔赠款资助大约140名美国数学家的旅行，预计三分之二的奖项将授予早期职业数学家。在西蒙斯基金会和ICM地方组委会的合作下，这笔赠款将为多达100名额外的早期职业人士提供支持。 强大而多样化的美国数学家队伍参加这样的活动有助于维持美国在数学研究和更广泛的STEM领域的世界领导地位。数学研究直接有助于美国的知识基础设施，国家安全，工业和商业。特别是在数学领域，研究活动依赖于面对面的互动，越来越多的合作和国际范围。为信息和通信技术等会议提供差旅支助是促进这些基本互动、促进新知识的创造和加强国际合作的一种具有成本效益的方式。总的来说，这些活动对美国知识经济的活力和国家的整体繁荣和健康做出了重大贡献。2022年ICM结构委员会为大会设置了主题部分，包括以下内容：逻辑学、代数学、数论、代数学和复几何学、几何学、拓扑学、李理论和推广、分析学、动力学、偏微分方程、数学物理学、概率论、组合数学、计算机科学数学、数值分析和科学计算、控制理论和优化、统计与数据分析、随机与微分建模、数学教育与数学普及、数学史。多达170个邀请讲座将在这些部分提出。另有21个全体会议邀请讲座计划，其中包括来自美国大学或公司的数学家十四。通过邀请讲座，小组讨论和其他活动，与会者将有很多机会交流思想。2022年的ICM将包括Emmy Noether讲座，该讲座旨在表彰为数学科学做出基础和持续贡献的女性。大会也是授予最负盛名的奖项在数学科学的场合。菲尔兹奖，数学的“诺贝尔奖”，授予40岁以下的数学家，以表彰他们过去的成就或未来的希望;算盘奖授予在信息科学的数学方面取得杰出成就的个人;卡尔·弗里德里希·高斯奖表彰那些数学研究在数学之外产生影响的人;陈省身奖章奖是给一个人，无论年龄或职业，其对数学的贡献值得最高水平的承认; Leelavati奖承认杰出的数学公共宣传工作。来自美国的学生将有丰富的机会向讲师学习并与讲师互动，加深他们与他们的研究的联系，并分享他们的发现和见解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the preeminent international gathering of mathematicians in the world. Organized by the International Mathematical Union, an organization with some 87 adhering member nations including the United States, the ICM serves as a global forum for mathematicians to present and learn about new mathematical developments, directions of future research, applications, ideas for pedagogy, and methodologies for disseminating and archiving mathematical knowledge. Since their inception in 1897 in Zurich, Switzerland, ICMs have been held in many different countries—most recently in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2018), Seoul, South Korea (2014), and Hyderabad, India (2010)—and a number have had historical significance well beyond the mathematical community. In 2022, the ICM will be held on the days July 6 – 14 in St. Petersburg, Russia, and an anticipated 5,000 individuals from around the world are expected to attend. To support participation in the Congress by individuals from the United States, the American Mathematical Society will utilize this grant to fund travel for approximately 140 US-based mathematicians, with an anticipated two-thirds of the awards going to early-career mathematicians. In cooperation with the Simons Foundation and the ICM Local Organizing Committee, this grant will provide support for up to 100 additional early-career people. The participation of a robust and diverse contingent of US-based mathematicians in such an event helps to sustain the US’s world leadership position in mathematical research and more broadly in STEM fields. Mathematical research contributes directly to the US’s knowledge infrastructure, national security, industry, and commerce. Especially in mathematics, research activity is reliant on in-person interactions, increasingly collaborative, and international in scope. Travel support for such gatherings as ICM is a cost-effective way to foster these basic interactions, promote the creation of new knowledge, and strengthen international cooperation. In the large, these activities contribute significantly to the vitality of the US’s knowledge-based economy and to the country’s overall prosperity and health. The 2022 ICM Structure Committee has set topical sections for the Congress, which include the following: Logic, Algebra, Number Theory, Algebraic and Complex Geometry, Geometry, Topology, Lie Theory and Generalizations, Analysis, Dynamics, Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics, Probability, Combinatorics, Mathematics of Computer Science, Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Control Theory and Optimization, Statistics and Data Analysis, Stochastic and Differential Modeling, Mathematical Education and Popularization of Mathematics, and History of Mathematics. Up to 170 invited lectures will be presented across these sections. An additional twenty-one plenary invited lectures are scheduled, including fourteen by mathematicians from US universities or companies. Through the invited lectures, panels, and other activities, the opportunities for participants to exchange ideas will abound. The 2022 ICM will incorporate the Emmy Noether Lecture, which honors women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences. The Congress is also the occasion for conferring the most prestigious awards in the mathematical sciences. The Fields Medal, the “Nobel Prize” of mathematics goes to a mathematician under the age of 40 for either past achievement or future promise; the Abacus Medal honors an individual with distinguished achievements in mathematical aspects of information science; the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize recognizes those whose mathematical research has had an impact outside of mathematics; the Chern Medal Award is given to an individual—regardless of age or vocation—whose contributions to mathematics warrants the highest level of recognition; the Leelavati Prize recognizes outstanding public outreach work for mathematics. Those traveling from the US with support from this grants program will have rich opportunities to learn from and interact with lecturers, deepen their connections with their research, and share their discoveries and insights.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.